The blinking light atop the iconic landmark has been sending secret messages for decades.

An iconic location along the Los Angeles River where countless movie scenes are filmed.

Come crisp December nights, this fairly plain neighborhood becomes a holiday dream world.

Once strictly off-limits, this lower level housing curious and priceless vehicles of the Petersen Automotive Museum is now open to the public.

The quiet canyon has a tumultuous history involving a doomsday cult.

The L.A. Zoo has a secret garden of rare bootleg cycads, a palm specimen dating back 280 million years.

This star-studded Old Hollywood restaurant is where fettuccine Alfredo made its United States debut.

After starting as a whimsical tourist attraction that eventually found its way to ruin, these renovated canals offer a lush and exotic locale on the Pacific Coast.

These delicate buggers are some of the rarest fossils that have bubbled up from the Tar Pits.

Hollywood's most famous landmark, the "temporary" sign that has stood for decades longer than intended.

America's most famous piece of self-built architecture.

Beneath the southern end of the Golden Gate Bridge is the “Gibraltar of the West Coast,” a fort built to protect the San Francisco Bay from naval attack.

Sit at the "Disney table,” where Walt and his team of "imagineers" once dined on the regular.

A 19th-century Baja cantina that many say is the birthplace of the margarita.

Home to New Mexico's longest bar, this watering hole also has a mining museum and a haunted history.

A flat-topped butte that makes a constant backdrop for Western art.

This giant pocket watch is the third iteration of a local landmark that has been standing just off the Santa Fe Plaza for over 100 years.

Once a dining hall for boarding school students, this lodge was a popular haunt for nuclear physicists working on the Manhattan Project.

The oldest continuously occupied public building in the United States.

For 60 years, skiers have calmed their nerves with cocktails hidden along these slopes.

A natural formation that resembles a camel resting in the New Mexico desert.

This southwest-styled home in Santa Fe claims to be the oldest house in America thanks to an ancient bit of foundation.

Thousands of pieces of art have been carved into the rock at the site of an ancient volcanic eruption.

The 7,000-year-old calcium carbonate formation creates a magnificent natural bridge.